In Review: "Full Time", a *Thriller* That Only the French Could Make

...plus, why ambitious plans to make Paris more accessible may be more rhetorical than real

Dear Subscribers,

Apologies for the lag between posts— I’ve been laid a bit low by a stubborn virus of some sort, and the symptoms have lingered for far longer than I’d hoped they would. Nevertheless, I’m back at my desk this week, feeling less than fully energetic but with an unmistakeable itch to get back to working (and writing). It’s a relief.

This week, my wife and I rented a French film that had caught my interest some time ago, not least because I read an IMDB synopsis that hinted at something delightfully Gallic:

"Just when Julie finally gets an interview for a job that will let her raise her children better, she runs into a national transportation strike.”

Starring Laure Calamy, who played in the French Netflix series “Call My Agent” (see my review here), “Full Time” is a pulse-raising film about a single mother who’s struggling to keep her life (and finances) together amid a major transportation strike in Paris. Yes— this is quite possibly the most. French. plot. point. ever.